Acid Jazz, which celebrates its 21st birthday this year, has always struck a balance between the championing of new music and the curating of the old. This debut, the work of English journeymen Dave Jay and Mark Dalton, follows that template to a fault, being both an original composition and a homage to P-funk and nu-soul. Yet while there is not much (bar the odd trumpet coda) that could be described as innovative, there is a persistent aroma of groove to Twisted Tongue, which, after all, is pretty much the only essential ingredient in a funk album (besides vocoded vocals). Killing Angelina loops synth and burpy bassline to hypnotic effect, Love in the City is the theme tune to a dirty cop show, Niagra Song (likely to be a sexy pun rather than a tribute to a waterfall) is laid back and woozy. Oddly, the most slavish Funkadelic recreation, Feelin' Junie Medley, is also the least effective; though at nearly seven minutes, George Clinton would at least appreciate its meandering length.